Attorney Douglas Clark’s Personal Background Provides a Unique Understanding the Heartfelt Value of Your Property in the booming, natural gas-rich Marcellus Shale region of Pennsylvania

As a son of a Western Pennsylvania farmer and retired steel worker, Doug appreciates the unique value of a landowner’s real property.

Doug's family farm has passed down from generation to generation and serves as the backbone asset of his family.

This appreciation and love for a family’s primary asset has motivated Doug to aggressively seek to secure the most advantageous financial lease for the landowner while maintaining and understanding the sensitivities involved in protecting cherished land.

Attorney Clark represents all clients as if he were negotiating an oil and gas lease for his own family’s farm.

Over the past several years Attorney Clark has negotiated with many different natural gas companies in effort to secure acceptable oil and gas leases for our client’s valuable parcels of land.

The process of representing hundreds of landowners secure oil and gas leases has enabled us to build relationships with numerous natural gas company representatives, land service company’s land coordinators/managers, and of course a multitude of on the ground landmen.

These relationships have often enabled us to expedite the oil and gas lease negotiation process and maintain lines of communication whereby we are kept abreast of current leasing market conditions.

These natural gas company contacts help serve as a valuable tool to assure our clients are receiving the best Marcellus Shale Oil and Gas leases possible for their Pennsylvania property.

We structure our oil and gas leasing legal fees in an affordable and friendly manner to the Marcellus Shale client.

Because we recognize that few, if any, Marcellus Shale landowners have money set aside for oil and gas lawyer fees, we offer fee agreement options for our clients.

Our fees are based on a scale depending on acreage and land usage.  All clients pay a minimal upfront retainer fee that is ultimately subtracted from the final flat fee.  The final payment is only due and owed to TCLF ONLY if the client executes the negotiated gas lease and ONLY after the client receives payment of the upfront bonus check from the gas company.”  This arrangement has worked extremely well for clients in all financial circumstances.

Upon contacting our office we can discuss fee agreement options and what may work best for your individual situation.

However, under no circumstances will we ever take a percentage of our client’s royalty rights as payment.

We understand that it is your property involved and disagree with the idea that your lawyer should share in any future royalties.

We structure our oil and gas leasing fees to help and protect the landowner, not exploit them.

Oil and gas leasing is an individual decision that should only be made by an educated landowner represented by knowledgeable oil and gas lawyer.

If multiple natural gas companies are involved in bidding for your Marcellus Shale rights, we thoroughly discuss which gas company’s oil and gas lease offer is the most landowner friendly.

However, it is always the landowner’s decision whether to lease, when to leases, and with which company they want to enter into an oil and gas lease agreement with.

We strive to provide you with the tools to make the best decision for your property in your particular situation.

We discuss the pros and cons of all offers presented and allow the client to make an informed decision for their situation.

We will always maintain the position that if the landowner is uncomfortable with the oil and gas lease presented, they should not sign.

An oil and gas lease may extend for many decades, and every landowner must be confident with their final executed oil and gas lease.

Landowners do not get a second opportunity to sign their oil and gas lease.